Senior Automation Engineer

Department: Engineering

Reports to: Manager, Engineering

Location: New Westminster

As a Senior Automation Engineer, you will be a critical member of our dynamic manufacturing engineering team and will play a pivotal role in optimizing and advancing our manufacturing processes through automation. You will lead the development and implementation of automated systems to enhance production efficiency, ensure product quality across our operations and partner on sustainable equipment solutions supporting our Net 0 goals.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in automation technologies, a deep understanding of engineering principles, and the ability to drive innovative solutions.

Under the supervision of Senior Manager, Engineering, you’ll partner with a team of Manufacturing Engineers as well as Technical Developers. You will also collaborate extensively and cross-functionally with the Quality and Production team. Additionally, you will build strong partnerships with external machine suppliers and integrators to develop manufacturing solutions.

• Focus on strategic objectives and projects to create wide scale value to the company strategies
• Analyze current systems and workflows to identify opportunities for automation. Implement improvements to existing & future processes and systems.
• Revolutionize the current manufacturing process by exploring, developing, piloting, and scaling new technologies
• Design, develop, and implement advanced automation systems tailored for technical apparel manufacturing
• Partner with equipment suppliers & integrators on trial automation to improve quality and productivity of current manufacturing process
• Lead automation projects from conception to deployment, including planning, execution, and evaluation
• Collaborate closely with our Design Centre and successfully influence a more effective partnership in design, development, and advanced manufacturing.
• Mentor engineering technicians, engineers and co-ops, providing technical guidance on the mastery of equipment and automation
• Possess comprehensive manufacturing knowledge and proven leadership skills to scale model specific findings into large and impactful initiatives to achieve the greatest value
• Provide support for automation systems, including troubleshooting issues, performing root cause analysis, and implementing corrective actions.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for automation systems, including design specifications, user manuals, and maintenance procedures.
• Collaborate closely work with engineering team and maintenance team to transfer knowledge of new automations, to ensure elimination of possible operational disruptions.
• Stay abreast of the latest advancements in automation technology and industry trends. Propose and develop innovative solutions to enhance our manufacturing capabilities and maintain a competitive edge.
• Foster great relationships with multiple teams to enable high performing teams including but not limited to promoting KPIs, sharing Lean initiatives, communicating appropriate production performance measures and costs, analyzing the root cause of performance trends, initiating improvement plans, determining the right jigs, templates, and workflow to advance automation in manufacturing.

• Rethink the manufacturing process of our flagship product, the Alpha SV, by integrating controls and automation with process design to drive improvement in Quality and Production KPIs. This development project has a factory wide impact as it will set the stage and establish the standard for the rest of the factory.
• Drive innovation by collaborating with the R&D team to test advanced technologies and refine next-generation products such as our iconic climbing harness. This co-development work is redefining how we bring products and new technologies to market and will influence our future NPI process.
• Champion our rapidly growing focus on sustainability by developing equipment based…